The faces of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt now gaze
from Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

William and Mary received 7,135 applications by the January
deadline, and took a sample by tallying the essay answers
from 410 students who received early admission, said Alison
Jesse, associate dean of admissions.

The heads of Mount Rushmore are visible for 60 miles (97 km)
and were sculpted between 1927 and 1941.